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The Catiline and Jugurthine Wars of Sallust; Together With the Four Orations of Cicero Against Catiline
The Catiline and Jugurthine Wars of Sallust Together With the Four Orations of Cicero Against Catiline Author:Sallust General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1841 Original Publisher: H. Slatter Subjects: Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C Rome History / Ancient / Rome Literary Collections / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you... more » buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: But when the war in Numidia was ended, and it was reported that Jugurtha was being brought in chains to Rome, Marius though absent was made consul, and Gaul was assigned to him as his province, and he as consul triumphed with great glory on the kalends of January. From that time all the hopes and resources of the state depended upon him. END OF THE JUGUBTUINE WAR. chapter{Section 4 THE FIEST OKATION OF CICEEO AGAINST CATILINE. THE ARGUMENT. In the year before Christ 62, Lucius Sergius Catiline, a nobleman of Rome, of excellent endowments, both of body and mind, but depraved through ill habits, having been trained up under the usurper Sulla, and through his whole time practised in acts of great licentiousness, stood with many other competitors for the consulship, but was accused of corruption and missed it, Marcus Tnllius Cicero and Caius Antonius being chosen; whereupon he entered into a dangerous conspiracy of raising a civil war, cutting off the principal of the senate, and firing the city. On the 6th and 7th of November, in the nights, were held secret councils with the chief conspirators, at the house of one M. Lecca, a Roman senator, where among other particulars concluded for the carrying on the design, two knights then present undertook early that morning, under colour of a visit, to kill Cicero in his bed; but he was immediately advised of this imminent danger from Q. Curius, by Fulvia, and that attempt frustrated. The same day, being the 8th of November, t...« less